Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most U. S. schoolboys have goggled at museum collections of armor, swords, muskets, pistols. Few museum arms displays are calculated to stir the imaginations of adults. But last week, Leslie Cheek, imaginative director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, put on a vivid show called "Again: Arms & Armor...
...quite live up to its promise. Valuable is its firsthand account of the rise of the Nazis and the Strasser role in it. Valuable too were the intimate glimpses and records of Nazi big shots; of Hitler in conversation with Ludendorff, Hindenburg, his sub-leaders; a vivid account of the June Purge, its debunking of Hitler's part in it; the chronicles of the Gestapo at work, with ambushes, escapes, assassinations...
...them a trip to California if they got to Manhattan on $2 and wangled free lodging from a top-flight New York hotel. After a week of catch-as-catch-can meals and flophouse nights, the Hotel Astor offered them a room. Said Boyd France to inquiring newshawks: "How vivid a story of our adventure do you want? I got an imagination...
Bridge leaves a vivid impression of airiness. Between its low railings and threadlike, widely spaced trusses, the main span suddenly opens out on a panoramic sweep of marine landscape over which a motorist has an illusion of flying...
...Honoria, a burlap knock-off of Scarlett O'Hara, start at the bottom and work their way up. Also involved in these 816 pages are Tecumseh, the Natchez Trace, the cotton gin, the Battle of New Orleans, the opening up of Alabama and Mississippi. For readers to whom vivid frontier data is cheesecake, there are enough exposed bosoms,-vengeance motifs and brutalities to go round...